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I am a woman of a certain age…

March 25, 2017 by Vickie Lester

Hello, poppets! If you’re wondering what that “certain age” is specifically in my case, it’s 57. An interesting age, to be sure. For instance, the other day I was out walking with the Mister down a leafy street lined with elegant old homes and he said something about a situation being “generally under control.” I halted abruptly and turned around, anxiously looking up and down an emerald green lawn. He said, “What are you doing?” I replied, “You said there […]

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The Lucky Son…conjuring both the brutality and magic of Vegas with blistering verve…a novel by Paul Hughen

March 23, 2017 by Vickie Lester

ooo ooo ooo Lucky Son, in which sleight of hand meets soul… This is the story of an innocent, with an innate gift of picking the numbers, caught up in a maelstrom of violence and manipulation. Paul Hughen’s debut novel is gritty and cinematic — conjuring both the brutality and magic of Vegas with blistering verve — a sure bet for a superb read. Howdy. Long time no blog. Sorry about that. Here’s the dealio, some things make me […]

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Move over, Louella Parsons (oops, you’re dead, never mind) Vickie Lester finally has something salacious to say about Hollywood

March 15, 2017 by Vickie Lester

It’s been suggested I go splashier in my revelations about Hollywood. But this is where I live, so I need to be careful. Also, I started this blog with the intention of not spreading malicious gossip — but babies, let’s dish. (Mama’s got a book to sell…) I can tell you how not to pick me up at a party… Saunter over like you still retained your matinee idol looks from the 1980s (when your belly has started to expand […]

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“Until you’re known in my profession as a monster, you’re not a star.” Bette Davis

March 8, 2017 by Vickie Lester

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All I do is dream of you…

September 10, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Hello! This excerpt from my novel in progress is for my friend in Seattle, Scott Parker-Anderson. I’m in a helluva good mood, because after months of being forbidden from typing (separated my shoulder joint, long story, tell ya later) I am back at the keyboard. For those of you who have read It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester you will recognize Anne, that book’s fish-out-of-water Hollywood heroine in a much younger incarnation… *** And thus, Anne Brown and […]

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The Not So Secret Origin of my first novel, or, It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester

September 8, 2016 by Vickie Lester

That’s me in a grungy corner of a set sometime in the late eighties. You can tell by the garish knitwear and the helmet of curls… I’ve been rattling around this part of the world for a long time, probably longer than some of you (dear readers) have been alive. During that time I took some things as a matter of course, and other things just stuck in my tiny mind. Things I couldn’t openly talk about, some of it […]

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A Soul in Ten Million… another #lastory by Vickie Lester

June 20, 2016 by Vickie Lester

David Benton spent a not inconsiderable stretch of years flitting from one architectural roost to another in search of perfect aesthetic repose. His first was a one-bedroom studio designed by Rudolph Schindler on a busy street in Silver Lake. It was noisy, a little shabby, but it had a pedigree, and ancestral lineage even of the bricks and mortar sort meant a lot to him. (You’ll notice I make no comment on snobbery, this was a part of him one simply […]

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I wrote my first novel for the man who put me on his shoulders and showed me the world, happy Father’s Day

June 19, 2016 by Vickie Lester

That’s my father, he died many years ago on a business trip to London. And being my father’s daughter, this is the deal—this portrait of him is a link to my Hollywood novel, click and it’ll take you to Amazon. Hold onto your hats for a rare “non-fiction” moment, I wrote my father into the book. Why is it the deal? Because one of the things my dad taught me was to stick with a project and to push it […]

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Hollywood. The Dream Factory. A camera-ready world of fantasy fulfilled, artifice and bone-deep glamour — or a place of dark reality, depthless closets, failed love, false prophets and untimely death…

April 29, 2016 by Vickie Lester

toobeguiling #itsinhiskissbyvickielester –> “Clifford takin’ drugs! CLIFF? Do you know what my self-righteous son of blessed memory, my self-righteous son, he of the completely unaltered states, did to me because of my indulgences?” “No, sir,” Anne replied. “Don’t call me sir!” he fumed. Anne said nothing. She didn’t want to trigger another explosion. Starkey flicked the cigarette out the window then took Anne’s small, graceful hands in his large, bony paws. He was long-fingered, with octave-spanning hands like his […]

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